Can we afford minor league baseball?

This is the question as of late. The question that is plaguing our minds and conversations on almost a daily basis. Can we afford to continue minor league baseball? And we’re not just talking nickels and dimes here, although that is the most obvious seeing the players make $1,300 a month before taxes (and for us before health insurance, which is another $180 per paycheck). There are so many other elements to consider in “affording;” there’s the fact that we are away from our church for half the year, which also means we are also away from friends; delaying starting a family…ect.

On the flip side, it is an amazing opportunity, one that doesn’t come along again in life. It is also so fun traveling around and seeing places you’d never see if you weren’t having to drive up to 10 hours to get to your next home or the next baseball game. I wish I had pictures of the beauty of Pennsylvania, driving along the river right before and after Williamsport will forever be one of my favorite sights and the one I use when I need some serene thoughts among the occasional chaos. Traveling around, working from home, sleeping in our blow up mattress and waking up to coffee and reading in our camping chairs around 9 am…okay sometimes 10 am, is totally the thing of dreams at the moment. We haven’t even reach one year of marriage and we’ve had four different homes, in four different states; and in doing that you kind of enjoy the little gypsy life and want to wait for the 3.5 kids and white fence life until you can name off the best coffee shops in all the small cities of the east coast if ever someone asked.

Looking forward and trying to imagine the next few months is such a funny thing. There are two polar opposite scenarios, we’re either planning for the next six months of off-season life or working towards long term life in Florida!

So anyway, one month left to the season and we’re in the big debate if baseball will happen again next year…if it’s even our decision to make, Cody could easily be released at the end of the year or spring training next year!

Cheers to the unknown!